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If all hell breaks loose on championship weekend, a Michigan/Ohio State rematch would be welcomedWhen the Big Ten signed a massive seven-year, $7 billion media rights deal with Fox, CBS, and NBC last year, ESPN was left out in the cold. But if championship weekend gets wild and Michigan and Ohio State are lucky enough to find themselves both in the College Football Playoff with the opportunity ...

Michigan State's Mel Tucker has been suspended [Updated][Updated at 4:17 pm ET] The Title IX investigation into sexual harassment claims against head football coach Mel Tucker has been ongoing since December of 2022, but it only took a few hours of media scrutiny for MSU to decide to discipline him. Funny how that works....

Gus Johnson, not Ian Eagle, should succeed Jim Nantz as the voice of March MadnessIan Eagle is really good at his job. Gus Johnson’s just better....

The Big 12 is going to die — so Deadspin fixes college football in its wake

Texas and Oklahoma are looking to get out of the Big 12 and into the SEC, or maybe the ACC?, or… who knows?...

The day it all fell apart: Deadspin talks to journalists all over the sports world about what they remember when everything shut down

A year ago today was our last “normal” day. At least in the beginning. Only we didn’t know it....

CORRECTED: Big Ten Network Suspends Braylon Edwards Indefinitely For Criticizing Michigan On Twitter

CORRECTION (7:51 p.m.): Though the announcement of Edwards’s suspension was made after Harbaugh’s press conference, Pat Kenny of Big Ten Network tells Deadspin that Edwards was informed of his suspension Sunday, before Harbaugh made his comments, and that “Coach Harbaugh’s comments had no bearing on...

Big Ten Network Melts Down, Airs Depeche Mode And Morrissey Songs Instead Of Commentary

If you were in the mood to hear Depeche Mode’s “Get The Balance Right” or Morrissey’s “Everyday Is Like Sunday” instead of play-by-play and analysis during today’s Illinois-Penn State game, the Big Ten Network delivered....

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TV Wrestling Analyst, On Iowa-Rutgers Being A Great Meet: "No Shit"

Rutgers hosted top-ranked Iowa in its first-ever Big Ten wrestling dual meet last night, and got steamrolled. The historic event did manage to break Scarlet Knights attendance records, though, and it earned a live broadcast on BTN—where analyst Jim Gibbons launched some of the best casual profanity ...

by Timothy Burke|

|Sat Jan 03 2015

Big Ten Network's New College Football Analyst Moonlights As A Faith Healer

J Leman starred at linebacker for the University of Illinois and followed his college career up with a forgettable one of years spent between NFL practice squads and the UFL. His experiences as a player and student-athlete certainly made him of interest to networks broadcasting football, and sure ...

by Timothy Burke|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Big Ten Considers Desperate Plea For Attention

The Big Ten is sad because no one pays attention to it after Thanksgiving, so it wants to add a new school and rebuild its entire organizational structure to play one extra football game. I have a better solution....

by Dashiell Bennett|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Big Ten Network Undeterred By Gimpy Sideline Pony

Charissa Thompson, sideline reporter for the Big Ten Network, broke her ankle doing step aerobics and will wear a cast. She's not DL'd yet, so keep her in your lineup. This is officially the slowest news day in history....

by A.J. Daulerio|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Even the coaches are turning on the Big Ten Network now. [Chicago Tribune]...

by Leitch|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

The Big Ten Network Needs All The Good PR It Can Get

We remember, back in March of this year, when we constantly railed against Major League Baseball's desire to put its Extra Innings package only on DirectTV, the masses rose up, and the uproar was so deafening that MLB couldn't help but notice, even way up there in their castle in the skies. (It floa...

by Leitch|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Comcast Lowers Itself To Impersonating You

Our frustrations with the Big Ten Network have been well-documented, but it doesn't really matter, because whenever corporations argue with each other, the only certainty is that we'll all lose. But it doesn't stop their fighting. And now they're using some unconventional methods....

by Leitch|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Don't Everybody Rush To Subscribe To The Big Ten Network (Like You Can Anyway)

The M Zone brings up something that has us thoroughly depressed: The upcoming launch of the Big Ten Network....

by Leitch|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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